Improvement in the construction of brackets, shelves



UNITED STATES PATENT EEIGE,

NAROY G. BURLEIGH, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, VCHARLES A. JACKSON, AND'VVILLIAMI H. EATON, OF SAME PLACE.

`IMPROVEMENT IN THE CQNSTRUCTlONl QF BRACKETS, SHELVESV, &c.

I Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 119,116, dated September 19, 1871.

To all lwhom it may concern:

Beit known that I, NARoY G.'BURLEIGH, of Boston, in the county of Sui'olk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and improved method of putting together and securing in their proper shape book-shelves, side and corner brackets, toilets7 boxes, and such other cabinet ware as the said method may be applied to; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference bey ing had to theaceompanying drawing and to theA letters of reference marked thereon making a part of this specication.

The nature of my invention consists in making a slot, marked Ain drawing, in component parts of cabinet ware, suflieiently large at one end to A receive the heads of screws or nails, marked B in drawing, and tapering to the other end to the size of the shank of the,r screw or nail, marked() in drawing.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention,`I will proceed to describe its construction and operation.

In putting book-shelves together in the form of a case or rack I construct my component parts in any of the known forms, and put them together by one or more screws or nails, marked B in drawing, suitably adjusted in each end to reach through or partly through the thickness of the sides. The side pieces have suitable slots, to receive screws or nails, cut in them, marked A in drawing, either through or partly through, the' slots to be sufficiently large at one end to receive the heads ofthe screws or nails, and tapering to the other end to the size of the shank ofthe screws or nails, and forming a dovetail. The shelf, with thescrews or nails properly adjusted and inserted into the slot, is then given a lateral or downward Witnesses: I

J. A. TOWER,

FRANCIS C. GEIsLER.

motion, which pushes the screws or nails into the- 

